| 单词 | inflection |
| 例句 | “I had pneumonia when I was just a tiny baby,” Denna said with no particular inflection. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But now he noticed the moving ears which gave expression and even inflection of expression to the face. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not hear all of what he said; they heard the one word, or phrase, or inflection that was for them the connection between the event and themselves. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know if I was praying as much as listening intently—trying to judge the success of my petition from every pause and inflection in Pefta’s voice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I moved relentlessly over the evening, back and forth, straining to remember exact words, telling inflections, any subtle insults or kindnesses I might’ve missed, and my mind—quite willingly—supplied various distortions. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I thought to look at all the children, the many colors of them, listen to the shouting music of their mixed-up voice, inflections of a hundred home languages. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Tigers even go meow, with an inflection similar to that of domestic cats, but louder and in a deeper range, not as encouraging to one to bend down and pick them up. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I barely understood what he was telling me, but the inflection of his voice soothed me. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She could not penetrate Lola’s detachment or coax from Pierrot the common inflections of everyday speech. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There are a full five seconds of silence before he answers, and when he does, it’s quietly, without inflection. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z There is a certain inflection of voice and body language that signals a crowd to applaud. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The fog sucked the tremor of inflection in his voice, and the sentence came out sounding flat, lifeless. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The voice and the inflection of the words — though the words themselves were not clear—sounded familiar to Kira. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look, bad news I may be, but I’m not a stranger. You said so yourself. ‘I’m so familiar to you,’” he mimics me with perfect beach girl inflection, then snaps the cover on his lens. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The voice, an unfamiliar mixture of Australian and Dutch inflections, came from the tall and thin but muscular man now walking toward me in khaki shorts and a Bahama shirt. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She had, likewise, a fierce and a hard eye: it reminded me of Mrs. Reed’s; she mouthed her words in speaking; her voice was deep, its inflections very pompous, very dogmatical,—very intolerable, in short. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z His voice was like a sheet of smooth grey slate, without the barest hint of inflection or emotion. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Both an author and a grad student at Columbia now, I affected an outerborough inflection at readings and in interviews that had become thick enough to require subtitles. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “And here you can see evidence of thickening of the distal small intestine,” says Professor Willard McGovern, his voice devoid of inflection. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I listen to famous qaris with my headphones and try to mimic their inflections and elongations of words when I’m alone. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I improvise, trying to sound as though I am reciting a memorized message, without inflection in the words. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Strangely, as bored as I was with cliches, her inflection gave them something new, and set me thinking for a little while at least. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice had an odd inflection to it, as if it wasn’t really asking a question. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He had a different speech inflection, she recalled. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I found myself with a British inflection and by no means one of Liverpool. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while, I even discovered that I could earn bonus points by delivering a line in the exact tone and with the same inflection as in the film. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Seen Mona?” he said without any inflection whatever. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It always seemed to be accompanied by a sheepish half smile and the don’t-take-this-the-wrong-way inflection that people often use when approaching the subject of race. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I’d thought nothing could be worse than listening to him drone about the proper inflections of my vowels; now I’m starting to wonder if I was mistaken. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Just now I can hear the scantest inflection of her Chinese, that rampant hyawr sound. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice had little inflection, and he always seemed to speak through clenched teeth. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The customer courtesy software filtered my voice, altering its tone and inflection to ensure that I always sounded cheerful and upbeat. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She seemed to have the subtle power of inflection over them, the way a tongue can move air. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And they spoke with a slight accent, an inflection that was unfamiliar. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Her voice had taken on some of the hard edge of Pima and Nailer’s own inflections. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “I can see him in your face. In your inflection. The way you walk. The way you gesture with your hands. He’s everywhere in you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Me: “‘I do not know which to prefer, / The beauty of inflections / Or the beauty of innuendos, / The blackbird whistling / Or just after.’” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z She’s spitting the rap right into it, not missing a beat, an inflection, a single word. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z But no matter how often they repeated the words, with many different inflections, they were unable to wring any more meaning from them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Uncle Eugene would have run it on the front page of his paper,” Amaka said, and I wondered if the inflection in her voice was pride. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She has a way of flattening even those phrases that should have inflection built into them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z They had the same East Coast inflection to their speech. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “So you went looking for a myth and found a man,” he said without inflection, without looking up. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The black community posed the question in private and in public, and with every possible inflection: rhetorically, angrily, incredulously, hopefully. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The war itself had been unreal to me, but I had grown able to respond emotionally to every hint, whisper, word, inflection, news, gossip, and rumor regarding conflicts between the races. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My score jumped another 500 points, and a message informed me that I’d received a bonus for my accent and inflection. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “I have a great respect for curiosity,” Lorren said with no particular inflection. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “This is for you,” he said, and his tone had no inflection. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z By the tone of inflection, Nathan guessed that Pond was asking him a question. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z From Tiny's inflection, I can't tell whether the thing is fantastically hilarious or fantastically wonderful, so I just shrug. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z He said all of that without any inflection, without any sincerity, without any meaning. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Dilsey,” she called, without inflection or emphasis or haste, as though she were not listening for a reply at all. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She had nailed all of my inflections to such a degree that I couldn’t tell.” Film: ?The Runaways?: The Girls Who Kicked In Rock?s Door 2010-03-12T04:40:00Z He appears as a puppet of Hendrix, yet at the same time transforming every familiar guitar lick, every vocal inflection so that we no longer know where anything's going. The incomparable political art of Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The role of Sookie, the introverted, spunky outsider, would seem to be a good fit, but the show’s writing, with its jokey, melodramatic inflections, doesn’t play to her strengths. 'True Blood' Recap: Doing the Vampire Tango 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z She mimics her co-workers’ vocal inflections in order to fit in. Sayaka Murata’s Eerie “Convenience Store Woman” Is a Love Story Between a Misfit and a Store 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z “Dancing With Myself” has arrived as TikTok dance reaches an inflection point. Where TikTok-Like Dance Challenges Meet Network TV 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z She sings in a limpid, serene voice with Indian classical inflections. Playlist: The Grammy Awards Before the Grammys 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z Her accent is a weird global confection – cut-glass English, Indian, American, with an upward Aussie inflection. Freida Pinto: ‘I wouldn’t work with Woody Allen again’ 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z The strong, spare arrangements of her pianist, Nate Buccieri, left room to savor the remarkable subtlety of her interpretations, in which every word and inflection in her deceptively light, girlish voice is made to count. Review: Marissa Mulder Trusts Her Intuition at the Metropolitan Room 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z You can hear the Caribbean, you can hear the Jamaican inflections, the calypso influence, you can hear his experiences of playing with the Ozzie Da Costa Band. Holding out for a hero: Soweto Kinch on Joe Harriott 2011-07-21T21:30:01Z There are jumping steps, fitted with folk-like inflections to the music. Review: From Mark Morris, a Tale of Love Refracted and Multiplied 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z But the evidence here and now with this current womens’ voice event is that we are experiencing an important much more general social inflection - at last and albeit with inevitable reactionary responses. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z The Sopranos is generally held up as the inflection point for television-as-art – the moment the medium matured and had to start being taken seriously. Buffy the Vampire Slayer at 20: the thrilling, brilliant birth of TV as art 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Ross seeks the inflection point where Huston, the subject, becomes an adjective, in “Huston pictures”—where the act of directing marks the film conspicuously with the director’s character. Lillian Ross’s Brilliant Chronicle of the Power Struggle Behind a John Huston Film 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z It develops these microtonal inflections that no longer belong to Western music. Listening to Music in the Desert at Dawn 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Instead it was how Perry spoke, with an infectious inflection, that pushed his musical Chandler-speak into the American vernacular. Could Matthew Perry’s Chandler-Speak Be Any More Memorable? 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z He may have the man's inflections down cold, but the rest of him becomes petrified wood. FX's "Impeachment" doesn't acquit itself well, despite a humanizing portrayal by Beanie Feldstein 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z He was an amiable and warm singer, precise and flexible, with a crisp pop voice and smooth R&B inflections. Singers Embrace the TV Road to Stardom 2011-05-22T01:30:15Z “Recitatif” refers to a musical expression defined by Merriam-Webster as “a rhythmically free vocal style that imitates the natural inflections of speech,” a style Morrison’s often suggested. Rare Toni Morrison short story to be published as a book 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Her lines of lyrics are long, fast, polysyllabic, intricately rhymed, packed with convoluted allusions and delivered with melodic inflections — her own extension of the rapping virtuosity of the 1990s, ambitious but never bombastic. On Her Debut Album, Noname Is a Sly Hip-Hop Maverick 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z In Ligeti's Second Quartet, they combined meticulous care in realising every inflection and colour with a perfectly judged sense of the work's scope and stature. JACK Quartet ? review 2011-08-01T17:31:40Z Amos Lee manipulates the inflection of his voice so it reflects a Southern accent. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z His asymmetrical haircut has been replaced by a shorter one, his features have matured and his gaucheness has gone, but it is still long, lean Adam with his puckish face and northern inflections. My daughter’s death made me do something terrible on Facebook 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Her "transitions" get special praise from commenters on SoundCloud, and we're not even going to mention the Cranberries, pausing instead to note a vague resemblance to the fine Stealing Sheep only without the psychedelic inflections. New band of the day – Hannah Scott (No 1,339) 2012-08-29T08:08:23Z She even repeats many of the vocal inflections she used in 2008, down to nearly reproducing the original album’s breathless phrasing and conscious dabs of vibrato or grain. Taylor Swift Remade ‘Fearless’ as ‘Taylor’s Version.’ Let’s Discuss. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z An intensely responsive soloist, he maneuvers with assurance as Mr. Alexander dances about him, bright chords and buzzing inflections laying fresh bait at every turn. The Playlist: Christina Aguilera’s Bizarre Puzzle, and 13 More New Songs 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Voices and inflections rose and fell; lines coiled, others found air. Buddies and budding actor, writer hustle to land their big breaks 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The role of Solomon connects Mandell with relatives from his past, an uncle through marriage in particular, who spoke with a similar inflection. Theater pulses in Alan Mandell's veins 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z But read a few pages of Ovid or Cervantes or Racine and every inflection of human experience is right there for you to touch. André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z A running theme of the season is that Louie hits on attractive waitresses who reject him with varying inflections of contempt. The TV Watch: Louis C.K. Returns With His Brand of Dark Comedy 2014-05-04T21:45:12Z As the neighborhood philosopher from next door, Jonathan Hadary emits sour bulletins from Schopenhauer with precise, funny inflections. Theater Review: ‘Golden Boy,’ Directed by Bartlett Sher 2012-12-07T03:00:19Z “We really are at an inflection point,” said Madeleine Grynsztejn, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, who is herself widely considered an eligible candidate for major museum director openings. A Changing of the Guard at the Whitney Brings a New Director 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z That’s how Joyce Gold describes a moment of inflection she experienced several years ago, when a history book opened her eyes to the restive ghosts of Lower Manhattan hiding in plain sight. Around Town for Dec. 2-8 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z I got in cars I shouldn’t have, had regrettable experiences on futons, copied the vocal inflections of the ringleader. Betty Gilpin: The First Time I Bought a Crumbling 1834 Farmhouse 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Another apparent impetus: The astute Mivos players bring their own inflections to this music. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z What happened in 1920 wasn’t a grand finale but an inflection point; there was still too much work to do. ‘Vanguard’ Spotlights the Black Women Who Fought for the Vote 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z And this was an inflection point in my life, because the kids I had grown up with up until sixth grade didn’t think of me as a foreigner at all because we’d grown up together. Q&A with Daniel Dae Kim: Keeping the secrets on ‘Lost,’ taking a stand on ‘Hawaii Five-O’ and working to protect Asian Americans 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Nugent said, “and let’s try to cut it with that inflection.” Below the Line: Editing ‘Room’ 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Gardiner takes over the 32-year-old company, which operates two performance spaces in Arlington’s Village at Shirlington, at a tumultuous inflection point. Signature Theatre names Matthew Gardiner as new artistic director 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Both the composer and lyricist are sons of ministers, who bring currents of church music and specific regional inflections to their score. Mining Deaths Sharpen ?The Burnt Part Boys? 2010-05-22T06:47:00Z “I think of the way my friend Martin Hayes” — a renowned fiddler — “might approach a gigue and vary inflections and articulations in a natural way,” Gandelsman said. Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The delight they exude in performing together is palpable, and Ms. Arthur’s comic inflections are as delightful to savor as Ms. Lansbury’s bouncing joy in movement. Theater Talkback: Charles Isherwood on His Favorite Tony Performances 2012-06-07T20:15:02Z The vignettes in “Easy” involve inflection points, muffled moments of questioning or confusion that — in mumblecore style — reach only tentative resolutions. Review: ‘Easy’ Stars the Young and the Muddled, Connecting in Chicago 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Chinen rightly takes some wind out of Washington’s sails, describing him as “a major arrival in jazz who brings no new vocabulary or inflection to his instrument.” Review | How the Internet transformed contemporary jazz 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z “I’ve been working so hard to convince everyone I’m American and now, no one knows I’m British,” she says, her London accent still strong enough to offset any recognizably American inflection. Carmen Ejogo: 'Hollywood wasn’t ready for someone who looked like me' 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Every so often, Mr. Frith played more straightforward guitar lines, but with the timbres and inflections of various instruments and cultures: an Eastern European clarinet, a Japanese koto. Music Review: Fred Frith and Nels Cline Create New Soundscapes 2014-01-19T22:12:56Z Ballet technique is often delivered with a street-smart attitude, peppered with jolts and jazzy inflections. Step-by-step guide to dance: Twyla Tharp 2011-02-01T10:43:36Z "I recorded people's voices to get the proper inflection," she said. Elizabeth Pena dies at 55; actress in 'The Incredibles,' 'La Bamba' 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The embellishments may involve a modest trill or other inflection of a note; the actual addition of notes, filling in gaps between others or creating purposeful disjunctures; or even big cadenza-like flourishes. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ Performances by Musica Sacra and St. Thomas Choir 2013-12-13T23:08:04Z But there will surely be more hospitable stagings of “No Villain,” not least with a cast more comfortable with the requisite Brooklyn-Jewish inflections. Review: ‘Comedy About a Bank Robbery’; ‘No Villain’; ‘It Is Easy to Be Dead’ 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z This novel in 10 conversations highlights “inflection points” in the narrator’s life, from which she hopes to “excavate some sort of arc,” a “scaffolding” for her own “pulsing interior dialogue.” New in Paperback: ‘Minor Feelings’ and ‘Bubblegum’ 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Collins films it with a luminous naturalism that’s ardently attentive to location, gesture, inflection, dress, décor. Kathleen Collins’s “Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary” Contains an Extraordinary Unmade Movie 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z “Here, there is no need for spurious gestures and inflections; everything is given with a supreme naturalness and a perfectly accommodated virtuosity that declare Freire a master pianist throughout.” Nelson Freire, Piano Virtuoso of Warmth and Finesse, Dies at 77 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z He has a slight speech impediment and an overemphatic manner of inflection that are rendered all the more conspicuous by the dentist’s-drill whine of his voice. Adam Sandler’s Misused Comedic Art 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z The television host was a glib woman with gushing inflections and swishy gestures. ‘Magical Ecuador’ 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Most of the performers echoed the inflections of Mr. Helm’s singing, with its deep Southern memories in every unvarnished phrase. Music Review: ‘Love for Levon,’ Tribute to Helm at Izod Center 2012-10-05T04:30:05Z “Why yes, James,” I said, my tone shifting to one of a more regal inflection. Dominatrix for a day 2012-11-04T01:00:00Z What’s on the other side of that inflection is worth thinking about, including the potential benefits — and costs — of the fairer theatrical future many people are working hard to create. Is It Finally Twilight for the Theater’s Sacred Monsters? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z It also comes with wittily jazzy inflections of the pelvis and torso that point up special features of Mozart’s timing. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z She speaks to him “in a low and even voice, emotional in its total lack of inflection” and tells him that, when she was 15, he forced himself on her. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z Pressley, who married Conan Harris in 2014 and is a stepmother to his daughter Cora, also arrives at a unique political inflection point along with the most diverse, and most female, class in history. For Ayanna Pressley, the beauty of unexpected wins led to Congress and a historic office 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z “Every word that I speak, every inflection in my tone of voice, every gesture is directed toward the goal of creating a feeling of community,” the maestro says. Roger Nierenberg and the Music Paradigm Program 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The novel follows her difficulties embracing monogamy in both theory and practice, told with the inflection of Lily’s humor. These Are The Best Books of 2015 So Far 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Brozman’s music was rooted in the blues, but the open tunings, syncopations and microtonal inflections of the blues inspired him to soak up styles worldwide. Bob Brozman, Guitarist, Is Dead at 59 2013-05-02T00:36:58Z With his cups of tea, country and western inflections and interest in patriotism and PR, middle-aged Bragg is a genial figure. My favourite album: Life's a Riot With Spy Vs Spy by Billy Bragg 2011-08-24T14:13:00Z The contract “marks an inflection point in our industry,” she said. Unionized HarperCollins Employees Are Back to Work After a 3-Month Strike 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Later in that number, Easter and Fisher appear to engage in a dialogue rife with disagreement, repeating the same phrase back and forth with slight changes in inflection. At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection. Oscar Isaac: 'The irony is not lost on me. Being celebrated for playing someone who wasn't' 2013-05-23T18:30:01Z “Many of the most popular self-help books in American history either have a religious inflection or are written, however subtly, from a perspective of faith,” Horowitz says. Perspective | ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ became a monster hit. Twenty years later, we’re still wondering why. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z My Morning Jacket treated a half-full field to their southern boogie with experimental inflections. Latitude festival - review 2011-07-17T15:36:16Z There’s a small inflection, a tiny rise to the word “pounds,” as if an invitation. Auctioning off utopia 2013-07-14T22:00:00Z The album’s soft illumination and pop inflection hardly disguise its earnest intent, and you might reasonably have expected it to inform Mr. Metheny’s stand at the Blue Note this week. Music Review: Pat Metheny at the Blue Note - Review 2011-10-14T23:15:27Z “It’s such an exciting time to be an American because we are at this amazing inflection point and everything is kind of up in the air,” she has declared. Why Donald Trump’s victory is a gift for Gwyneth Paltrow 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z So even though the inflection is going up, there's no doubt that what we are doing is having an impact. Anthony Fauci: The coronavirus pandemic ‘is not, as it were, under control’ 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z The stripping away of practiced inflections and mannerisms can offer a bracing corrective to the familiar artifices of the actor’s craft. Film: Midwinter Ritual: When Good Actor Meets Bad Movie 2011-02-19T03:43:01Z Whether she’s singing old songs or her own, Ms. Chaney destabilizes them, turning them into rhapsodic, immediate dramas, giving listeners a reason to hang on every phrase and inflection. Review: Olivia Chaney, a Willfully Modern Singer of Folk 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z You say “beef fajitas” with an extraordinary inflection in the ad where you list all the meals you can make with beef. Sam Elliott: 'My security comes from the fact I've never done a job for money' 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Their tales of a life touched by the streets are dipped in sugary inflections that all but guarantee a wider, poppier audience—often at the expense of the gravity of their own lyrics. The Happy-Sad Hooks of YNW Melly’s “We All Shine” 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z A friend from childhood tells him that, when he came out in college, his inflections suddenly changed, and part of her still hears the voice of an “imposter” when he talks. Is There a “Gay Voice”? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z But illustration — for all its beguiling cultural inflections — is perhaps the closest thing children have to a universal language. The Caldecott Medal Needs an International Makeover 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z His accent is a fluid mix of British and American pronunciations, with Pakistani inflections, while his clothes are dark, smart and neutral. Mohsin Hamid 2013-03-26T19:07:18Z It's a combination that works particularly well with the overt drama of the First Sonata, where his subtle rhythmic and emotional inflections add immensely to the gathering tension. Rachmaninov: Piano Sonatas 1 & 2 – review 2012-10-11T21:23:01Z She released in them all a freedom of spirit, a wealth of musical nuance and a range of physical inflection that kept her enterprise on the top level of achievement amid the world’s Balanchine diaspora. After the Curtain Falls: Talking to Suzanne Farrell, Artist and Muse 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z We went back and forth with a lot of Skype sessions — telling him how I really wanted to maintain the essence in this particular dress of the inflection of fire. Dressed to Kill: A Conversation with the Costume Designer of Catching Fire 2013-11-22T23:55:03Z Erivo and a vocal coach would begin by trying to zoom in on the finer details of Franklin’s technical virtuosity and her subtle emotional inflections. In ‘Genius: Aretha,’ Respecting the Mind, Not Just the Soul 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z “And the Revolution was a huge inflection point in that change.” The Battle for 1776 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z “That said, it could be that there is a kind of ‘inflection’ point where suddenly it begins to count. Faster, higher, longer: how female ultra-athletes started to beat men 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Perhaps because his voice is more genre-neutral than Mr. Shelton’s, Mr. Bryan — who sings with some soul music inflections — is emphatic about his rural signifiers. For Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, You Can’t Teach an Old Country Bro New Tricks 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z In the slower numbers, she and Mr. Leonhart, 75, explored the spaces between phrases, building an emotional suspense that left you hanging on every syllable and vocal inflection. Review: Barbara Carroll Sustains a Profound Jazz Symbiosis 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Thomson was a master of the art of writing vocal lines that matched the rhythmic inflections of the words, the sound and syntax of the phrases. When a Critic Put on the ‘Best of All American Operas’ 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z But Coco O is a singer steeped in 1990s R&B — there are flickers of the early, looser Mary J. Blige in her voice and inflections. Music Review: Quadron at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-04-26T22:59:56Z His string-driven score, full of Latin inflections, combines brassy numbers with gentle songs like Pepa’s “Mother’s Day,” an ode to family that expands into a ballad about the difficulties of expressing love. Women on the Verge of a Big Broadway Gamble 2010-10-07T18:28:00Z “They understand how to put inflections on syllables to stress the meaning.” ‘Yellowstone’ Gets a Prequel in ‘1883,’ but It Wasn’t Easy 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z McCulloch grants that traditional writing has tilled these fields before, and she does not deny that relatively old-school techniques—vocabulary, syntax—can load sentences with the exquisite inflections of conversation. Is the Internet Making Writing Better? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Those songs and spoken words are recreated here — inflection for inflection, pause for pause — by four actresses who, for the most part, sit calm and straight backed, their hands folded in their laps. ‘Early Shaker Spirituals,’ Plain-Spoken Tribute 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z "Ferguson Rises" arrives on PBS at an inflection point in the United States about systemic racial disparity and whether we, as a nation, are ready to do the hard work of addressing it. "Ferguson Rises" explains why America needs its modern civil rights movement through a father's eyes 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z No. Even though Spader is using the same creepy/menacing inflection that Ben Kingsley employed for the Mandarin in Iron Man 3, these are two entirely separate and distinct characters. All Your Avengers: Age of Ultron Trailer Questions Answered 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z In addition to hearing aids that amplify sounds that are difficult to hear, Camille uses a combination of self-taught techniques to compile auditory information: reading lips, noticing inflection, analyzing body language and observing facial expressions. Perspective | My daughter’s hidden disability 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Weill set Brecht's mordantly ironic lyrics to brilliantly simple melodies with blues, jazz and tango inflections, in a score molded for actors rather than trained singers. Get ready for a Mack attack, Seattle: Here comes 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-12T01:12:03Z In Season 1 the show’s creators and writers, the brothers Harry and Jack Williams, used that template to fashion a fairly absorbing thriller with Nordic-noir inflections. Review: ‘The Missing,’ With Children Gone and Parents in Extremis 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z This is one of those albums without filler, where every song counts, where you come to learn each and every drum fill, guitar note, lyric and vocal inflection. Dean Wareham: My Jonathan Richman romance 2012-06-15T00:00:00Z On Friday morning, after a quick run-through of the script, the actors huddled with the play’s director, Toby Frow, and Mr. Dragset to talk about small changes and inflections. ?Happy Days in the Art World? at Performa 11 2011-10-31T22:10:32Z The 10 hardworking students of Dancewave, too, managed to enliven the space around them in Jamal Jackson’s “Mile 21,” a high-energy piece with West African inflections set in the contemporary art wing. The BEAT Festival Returns to Brooklyn 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z Alfred’s exhaustion — Henry can play irritated weariness with a thousand different inflections — says it all. Welcome to the Future. ‘Atlanta’ Has Been Waiting for You. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Always an understated writer, who prefers innuendo to inflection, in this book he evinces a talent for the deadpan. Colm Toibin on the Fathers of Geniuses 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z "Last year we hit an inflection point," Henderson says, referring to the jump to 77 musicians in 12 cities and four countries. Los Angeles' Bach in the Subways celebration ready to roll Saturday 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Allison used his cool, clear voice to conversational effect, with an easy blues inflection that harked back to his upbringing in rural Mississippi. Mose Allison, a Font of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Ms. Goldberg finds plenty of wanly funny inflections in Katie’s febrile anxiousness, but the performance is mostly a compendium of jittery mannerisms. Theater Review: In ‘Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin,’ a Reprobate Returns 2013-06-28T02:00:01Z In its way his trumpet playing — muted staccato notes in short melodious phrases with Mexican and Brazilian inflections and steady underlying beats — is just as unassuming. Music Review: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall at the Caf? Carlyle 2012-02-29T23:34:58Z I know every inflection of "Here Comes My Girl," the way he draws out the word "eyes" before wondering how this love could feel so good, so right. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, an L.A. band, stare at 'Hypnotic Eye' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z American cultural hegemony looms over her childhood in the province of Bulacan, north of Manila, where she tries to emulate the Western inflection of the English she hears on TV and in pop music. From the Philippines to Harvard, Boyhood to Womanhood, a Coming-of-Age Across Borders 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Breathtakingly organic, their rendition wove detail and instrumental inflection into a seamlessly compelling whole. The soul of Russia, by way of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z "From watching footage I knew certain inflections he would do," Benjamin says. Rapper Andre Benjamin has a Jimi Hendrix experience 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z The players saw themselves as being at an inflection point in the history of women’s sports. Seven Turning Points from the Year in Sports 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Her voice is a nuanced, passionate alto, capable of intricate inflections and earthy vigor. Music Review: Ghalia Benali at French Institute Alliance Française 2013-05-16T21:42:33Z The recordings would become an inflection point in the history of what we now refer to as country music. In Southern Appalachia, Searching for the ‘Big Bang’ of Country Music 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z For Clyburn, who has served in Congress for 27 years and is majority whip, the past few months have had their own inflections. Jim Clyburn changed everything for Joe Biden’s campaign. He’s been a political force for a long time. 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Depending on the song and the arrangement, the music brought in subtle blues and inflections. Music Review: Keren Ann in American Songbook Program at the Allen Room 2012-02-02T23:15:08Z The melodic style eschews complexity and the folk inflections of the composer's Orkney works, with an unexpectedly discordant ending that strikes a strangely cautionary note. BBCSSO/Brabbins 2010-06-22T22:00:00Z Even Kooser’s titles bear a certain doleful inflection: “Changing Drivers,” “Estate Sale,” “Closing the Windows,” “Sundial” or — quite baldly — “The Past”: Poetry review: ‘Splitting an Order,’ by Ted Kooser It’s in the way he places notes: boldly, with interrogative inflections and an arc toward ecstatic revelation. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z His impassioned delivery and Tipperary inflection during those interviews, as well as in film documentaries on artists, writers and etymology, once prompted NPR to anoint him “the most eloquent man in the world.” Frank Delaney, 74, Author Whose Passion Was Deconstructing Joyce’s ‘Ulysses,’ Dies 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z But haste also eliminates many of the inflection points in the characters’ development as they hustle from high point to low. Review: An Audio ‘Streetcar,’ Not Yet Reaching Its Destination 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z What governs the inflections that make any utterance unmistakably the words of one speaker in this whole language-saturated world? Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z But there is no room here for a dramatic pause or a sudden surprise inflection: the music drives on. Michel Legrand puts his Umbrellas up indoors 2011-03-17T22:10:01Z Choreographed by the action maestro Yuen Wo Ping, each has a different cadence, inflection and purpose and, like the numbers in a musical, drive the story or bring it to an enchanted standstill. Movie Review: ‘The Grandmaster,’ Wong Kar-wai’s New Film 2013-08-22T21:24:54Z Rhythms, phrase lengths and dynamic inflections keep changing. Dance Review: Demonstrating How a Special Choreographer Made Men Special 2011-08-04T21:32:04Z Using every element at her command — lyrics, inflections, chord progressions, arrangements, production — the tracks reach into difficult, unresolved situations, letting sounds and thoughts hang in the air. Baby Rose Writes Music With Intention, ‘Not to Fit Into a Box’ 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Popkey’s narrator traverses a series of inflection points over the course of 17 years. How Much Power Do Women Want? A Novel Circles the Question 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The production benefits greatly from the terrific Brooks, who infuses even prosaic moments — chitchat with Lia over potato chips, for instance — with interesting inflections and intense personality. Review | No shoo-in success for two new plays about female artists 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z They may share his pallor, his vertical hair and strange inflections, but he is as much an observer of them as we are. Christopher Walken: 'I'm a regular guy' 2013-03-21T19:00:03Z Oliver, the longtime Daily Show correspondent, oversaw a summer of Snowden and selfies, maintaining the Stewart show’s format with a slight British inflection. Jon Stewart Returns To a Ship-Shape Daily Show, and a Full Agenda 2013-09-04T13:31:19Z A gifted designer, Mr. Mendelsund is more alert than most to inflection and innuendos. ‘What We See When We Read,’ by Peter Mendelsund 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The Los Angeles Philharmonic is now at an inflection point. Review: ‘Stranger Love’ Reflects the L.A. Philharmonic at Its Finest 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Movie actors were forced to give theatrical displays for the benefit of clunky, insensitive equipment, but today even the most basic camera and sound kit can pick up the subtlest actorly inflection. Clip joint: films that feature yelling 2013-03-28T10:00:09Z For all its imaginative verve—and grace notes of snappy performance, gestures, and inflections—“Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood” is a strangely inert movie. Review: Quentin Tarantino’s Obscenely Regressive Vision of the Sixties in “Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood” 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Journey Gunderson, the executive director of the National Comedy Center, called “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” ”an inflection point for comedy — influencing generations of comedy creators. The Smothers Brothers mark their CBS firing 50 years ago 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z And the new season, crucially, does no favors to Comer, whose Emmy-winning performance as Villanelle has always been an exterior creation, a highly skilled collection of mannerisms, vocal inflections and sly mugging. Review: A ‘Killing Eve’ That No One Was Asking For 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z And, Mr. Jewison said, “he delivered it in a Southern accent and with exactly Rod’s inflection.” A Director of Ideas With Decades of Them 2011-05-22T01:13:01Z And we’re at a moment — some kind of new inflection point. Environmentalist Bill McKibben: ‘Mother Nature is a very powerful educator’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z But mostly, the characters seem to exist in their own bubbles, with the actors usually delivering their lines facing the audience, often with minimal emotional inflection. ‘A Beautiful Day in November’ Opens at City Center 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z "This is an inflection point...where we are discussing ideas, concepts and policy that have been set aside for some years out of respect and deference to the queen." Diana would "entirely agree with Harry's assessment of the royal family," says royals expert 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z I have a joke about inflection points, but it’s been overused. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I have a joke about Twitter memes 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z I’ll keep an eye on their energy level, inflection, body language. Charles Yu Loves Reading With His Children. Don’t Tell Them. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Just as in 2013, the cast is working rigorously with the play’s director, Stephen Brown-Fried, who is himself Jewish, on mastering the Yiddish inflections and the family’s fraught dynamics. An Asian-American Theater Company Cuts a Fresh Casting Trail 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z New hosts usually need time to develop their style, but the reviews on Ms. Amanpour, who is half Iranian and speaks with a British inflection, poured in the minute her hiring was announced. The TV Watch: Christiane Amanpour Shows Candor on ABC?s ?This Week? 2010-08-01T21:44:00Z Still, Mr. McGurr views the Firestone show as an inflection point. Futura, a King of Graffiti, Returns to His Roots 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Most of all, she made the touchstone role her own, with shadings and inflections that set her apart. Damrau dazzles in debut as Violetta at Met 2013-03-15T14:42:09Z Hamaguchi’s realism is as constructed as that of any Sundance selection, but what distinguishes his work is his attention to ambiguity and to everyday moments, and his general avoidance of dramatic or melodramatic inflection. ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Review: What We Talk About 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z How exactly Vidal and Buckley argue — via lofty diction, engorged vocabularies and patrician inflection — would seem to make them impossible for today’s TV, despite the lasting legacy of their debating tactics. The Buckley vs. Vidal debates: The original knock-down, drag-out TV 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z It then uses that information to build a database for analyzing inflections in mood and language. Talk Dirty With Machine 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z When he talks tough, he gets the words right; it’s the inflections that are all off. Review: In 'Keanu,' Key and Peele Let a Cat Steal the Show 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z “I’m building my empire,” he said, in a melodious paisa accent, the Colombian inflection that rises and falls in a singsong way. Maluma, Fashion Chameleon 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Matisse, who succeeded her as chief executive, described the change as an inflection point. Shaping the Future of a New American Pottery Company 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z He plays with inflections, rhythms, expressions, postures and bearings to make his identical Howards utterly distinct, and at the same time he gives each one flashes of the other’s personality. Review: ‘Counterpart’ Gives Us J.K. Simmons, Times Two 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Tesori also has them read their lyrics aloud to her, sometimes “two or three times,” as Kron recalled, to glean intention from inflection. Jeanine Tesori’s Gift: Conjuring the Storytelling Potency of Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z In Putnam’s recounting, the 1960s were the inflection point when America retreated from community to selfish individualism. The D.I.Y. Way to Heal the Social Fabric: Don’t Do It Yourself 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z There’s something implicitly fearsome in the minimalist inflections of “Six Cents,” a seeming narrowing of experience that, for a filmmaker just starting out, runs the risk of stopping life before it starts. A Filmmaker Trying to Break Free from Instagram Modernity 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Never Shout Never represents the inflection point at which it has sloughed off all of its punk pretentions and been distilled down to its folk essence. Music Review: Never Shout Never at Irving Plaza 2010-04-28T22:56:00Z There are usually light suggestions of a character’s voice, something that gives each of the characters their own lilt or inflection. And so it goes: James Franco narrates ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z She matches her upward inflections to the curve of her smile, skipping into a hula hoop like a maid at the maypole. Macbeth; Circle Mirror Transformation; The Paper Architect – review 2013-07-13T23:05:59Z That is, in addition to looser language, the speaker generously employs pauses and, particularly at the end of sentences, emphatic inflection. ‘NPR Voice’ Has Taken Over the Airwaves 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The main problem with the bit is that it’s not particularly funny, and that’s because its racial inflections are rather unexamined. “Yellow people with tiny dongs”?: The Oscars have more than one diversity problem — and it shows 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z They coax some laughs from Rob Riggle and get some appealingly angular antics from the expressions and inflections of Rachel Melvin, and they give Kathleen Turner, too rarely seen, a hearty and grounded turn. The Limits of Gags: “Dumb and Dumber To” 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z His manner of sliding up to pitches, emphasizing blues inflections and releasing cascades of soft trills made a compelling case for this ballad. Miguel Zenon illuminates Puerto Rican jazz 2011-05-27T15:35:57Z If you hear in some of our cast . . . some inflections of Asian accents; that is just the way those people spoke. "Blue Eye Samurai" cuts through multiracial shame, what it is "to be ostracized from both sides" 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z The first single is “Night Court in Compton,” a track that starts with inflections of woozy, mid-60s Blue Note postbop — think Herbie Hancock and Andrew Hill — and quickly sinks into a hypnotic groove. The Playlist: Black Eyed Peas Get Serious About Injustice, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Kaling talks as if she were offscreen, writing her lines in the act of speaking them and delivering them with conversational and colloquial emphases and inflections. “Late Night,” Reviewed: Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling’s Incisive Comedy about the Gender Politics of TV 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z For the cadenza, Dueñas played a series of repeated figures in a free tempo, like an actor teasing out the subtleties of a line with different inflections. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Comes to Town, Megawatt Appeal on Display 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z On the album, each passage is read by a celebrity guest, and then a big band plays a movement patterned after the speech’s inflections and cadences. Swinging the Vote: Jazz Inspired by the Presidential Race 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z To the contrary, you were never entirely sure what Mr. Fischer would do with a tempo shift or a phrase inflection. Music Review | 'Beethoven Then and Now': Beethoven Across the Years at Lincoln Center 2010-03-29T06:39:00Z "But I felt it was important for a new story to understand the character from the ground up because I feel like the inflection of this character was quite different than what we'd seen before." Rebooting 'Spider-Man,' in a flash 2012-06-27T21:01:15Z If they match our strong and weak inflections on the syllables, they basically boost our sound, and our diction carries over. After a Decade, a Monteverdi Masterpiece Flies Free 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z But the narrator’s attention to the subtlest inflections of communication is not merely a personality trait; it’s the central qualification for her job: She’s an interpreter working at the World Court. Review | Barack Obama’s summer reading pick ‘Intimacies’ is an unsettling novel about moral dilemmas 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Jones also imbued the slightest turn in a word or phrase with musical meaning, especially in the way she changed inflections on the title word of “Tragedy.” Norah Jones defies labels in genre-, career-spanning concert 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The band’s track “Hot and Cold” is chipper with inflections of grunge and punk and boasts a kitschy, food-obsessed music video. Pop & Rock Listings for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z He’s also prone to repeating lines, seemingly at random, changing his inflection just so. Future is now 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Ian had these amazing little inflections, incidental bits of performance genius. 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendos, The blackbird whistling Or just after. ‘What We See When We Read,’ by Peter Mendelsund 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z His saxophone emits a broad and smoky sound, with a measured inflection that gives the music an unhurried, cogitative pacing. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z That was evident in Mills’s vocal inflections on such songs as “Cry to Laugh,” as well as his taste for rolling New Orleans rhythms. A casual blend of art-Americana from Blake Mills at the Hamilton But she’s almost always chosen the most conventional structures to deliver her message, torch songs and standards with light inflections of country and rock. Music Review: Heaven, Love and Water, but No Dreaming 2011-04-15T23:00:12Z “I don’t like the upward inflection there,” he says sternly. ‘I like it when people think this is real’: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon on The Trip to Spain 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z In preparation, he watched a ton of “Jeopardy!” and tried to become as familiar as possible with Trebek’s inflections. Ken Jennings talks James Holzhauer ‘feud,’ Brad Rutter’s losses and that brutal Bloomberg tweet 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z The film has little visual inflection to match the spoken rhetoric that she crafts. The Crucial Lessons of Democracy in “Selma” 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Jolie Pitt directs herself and Pitt to downplay the inflections, leaving the inflection to the images, which themselves are sparely inflected. Angelina Jolie Pitt’s “By the Sea” Is Personal and Daring 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z "What he conveys with the tiniest inflection or quirk of a finger is immense and the sum effect of a fabulously sober comic performance," it added. 'Honeymoon in Vegas' ups ante for glitz in new Broadway version 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z At the keyboard, Bavouzet exuded a relaxed, confident musicianship and offered a reading full of telling inflections and slyly subversive touches. Pianist and conductor diverge, clash during their BSO debuts 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z The Russian inflections in the choreography – the fusion of melancholy and boisterousness – are bred in the bones of this cast. Bolshoi: Russian Seasons 2010-07-30T20:31:00Z Here's what happens to conversation when you assume, as Eldon does, that the upward inflection always implies a question. Kevin Eldon 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z It leaves no room for the actors’ originality or personality, and no burrs of gesture or inflection for a viewer’s imagination to get caught on. Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” Reviewed 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Drake’s increasing mastery of not just rhyme, but tone and inflection is readily apparent. Drake, 'Nothing Was the Same' review 2013-09-23T02:13:00Z In the piano piece, three and four-note figures change in pitch, register and rhythmic inflection, and are often left just hanging in space, colouring the silences between them. Monk Feldman: The Northern Shore; In the Small Time of a Desert Flower – review 2012-07-26T21:05:01Z Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement “9 Evenings” turned out to be an inflection point. The Big Bang of Art and Tech in New York 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z To understand why 1987 is a cultural inflection, it’s best to consider it the year a burgeoning underground movement crystallized and mobilized. Why 1987 remains the most important moment in alternative rock 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z I’m hearing the subtlety, the inflection, the vibrato, the cadence, just the rhythm of one’s vocality. This Artist Proposes a Community Space ‘to Dream, to Imagine’ 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Maybe it was my Jewish midwestern roots and my nasal inflections. Bob Dylan called me a “scurrilous little wretch with a hard-on for comedy” 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z He is so in control of his material – the unexpected inflection; the telling silences; the gentle ebb and flow of bathos and high farce – that we hang on his every unamplified word. Mike Birbiglia ? review 2012-05-17T17:10:09Z A singer working with Mr. Harrell covers a few bars — a line or two, maybe four — over and over, with different emphases and inflections, until Mr. Harrell hears what he wants. Kuk Harrell, Justin Bieber’s Vocal Producer 2012-06-29T12:43:09Z Most songs are in a major key, and the jazz inflections are muted — the score’s one boogie-woogie number, “The Jitterbug,” was cut during production — but Arlen’s melodies are as intricate as ever. Oz Revisited – Part 4: Where’s That Rainbow? 2013-09-19T14:51:07Z The cast is small, yet no absence is felt because each person plays multiple people simply by swapping out coats, caps and vocal inflections. Broadway's 9/11 musical "Come From Away" lands on TV, offering kindness & laughter in dark times 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z He sometimes had to “indicate a truth or an official lie by the tone and inflection of the voice,” Shirer wrote, or “by a pause held longer than is natural.” Books of The Times: A Foreign Correspondent in Nazi Germany Who Interpreted It for the World 2011-08-09T21:57:15Z The naturalistic performance, which recreates cadence, inflection, intonation and pauses, isn’t solely focused on dialogue. He?s the Shade of Martha Graham 2011-03-25T14:24:56Z He turns the fluid frames into mnemonic spaces of movement, gesture, and inflection that burn them into consciousness exactly as they’re burned into Rick’s, and into Malick’s own. Terrence Malick’s “Knight of Cups” Challenges Hollywood to Do Better 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z In matters of interpretation, Dearie was a stealth bomber who with the tiniest inflection could insert a note of scathing sarcasm into a performance. Music Review: Marissa Mulder Sings of Illusions at the Metropolitan Room 2012-03-08T22:39:04Z Yet there is something a little frustrating about a performance where every inflection, every gesture comes across as the calculated result of a lengthy thought process. Review: A ‘King Lear’ in Which You Feel for All the Daughters 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z But I hear him in certain inflections in my voice.” Sheen?s Circle, From Son to Father 2010-02-22T22:04:00Z The title track mixes steel guitar – an instrument Sakamoto taught himself before recording the album -- Hawaiian melodic inflections and Space Age atmospherics into a quietly funky groove. Slash, Mia Doi Todd and the Juan MacClean drop new albums 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z He nods, eyes sleepy, still taking in every inflection of my demeanor. How my husband forgot sex 2014-02-13T00:00:00Z That’s an inflection point — when somebody cares enough and is invested enough to try to meet you halfway. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Husband goes from never listening to listening mid-conversation 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Brian Stokes Mitchell shared the Gershwins’ “It Ain’t Necessarily So” with the audience, exchanging phrases and devilish inflections with one or another part of the house. Critic's Notebook: Mayor Bloomberg Leads City Center Re-Opening Gala 2011-10-26T13:54:06Z Leo's childhood in Berlin left him with a barely noticeable German inflection to the otherwise impeccable English formed in his adolescence, since the arrival of the Nazis forced another displacement – to London. Leo Steinberg obituary 2011-04-12T16:56:17Z The inflection point, that I see at least, is in “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” the whales movie. Is a “Star Trek” future possible? “You can have anything you want at any time, anywhere, on demand” 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Some of her vowels have a British inflection, others a tropical, Latin slowness. Need a Broad? Call Turner 2011-04-03T02:14:35Z I never had the privilege of seeing her as Oscar Wilde’s Lady Bracknell on the London stage, but I fully believe she would have brought the same killer inflection to “A handbag?” 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Rumble With Lord G! 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z These quirky characters — and many others — spring to life courtesy of performer Nora Achrati, who expertly alters her inflections, vocal pitch and body language so as to make each personality distinct. Review | Hub Theatre’s ‘The Pavilion’ revisits the past 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z They are all new, but differ mainly in details and small matters of inflection. Perspective | The White House may be chaos, but our old presidents are looking dignified 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The band’s debut single, “Hot and Cold,” was chipper with inflections of grunge and punk and had a kitschy, food-obsessed music video. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 31-Nov. 6 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The band’s debut single, “Hot and Cold,” was chipper, with inflections of grunge and punk, and had a kitschy, food-obsessed music video; the boisterous debut album “Rips” came out last year. Pop & Rock Listings for Oct. 16-22 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Sign language is a complex system of communication, with its own accents and inflections, idioms and dialects, capable of conveying endless shades of meaning. Deaf rapper Sean Forbes makes himself joyfully heard on the hip-hop scene 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Both Reeves and Ryder talk so much that the timbre of their voices, even with the antic inflections that their roles require, is more substantial than anything they’re saying. “Destination Wedding,” Reviewed: Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves Suffer Through One of the Worst Sex Scenes in Recent Memory 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The grand mixture that is Cuban music — its intricate grooves, melodic inflections, arrays of drums — began flowing into her compositions. A Composer Puts Her Life in Music, Beyond Labels 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Check my inflection so that there is no misdirection. Television: T.J. Holmes on Black Entertainment Television 2012-10-21T03:29:02Z More striking were its thick textures and close harmonies, enlivened by minutely microtonal inflections. JACK Quartet and Argento Riff on Mahler’s Ninth 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z His odd alien inflections turn what could be throwaway lines into meaningful, often hilarious moments. When Harry met Asta: Syfy's kooky "Resident Alien" is a love story 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z The “degree of negative consequences” is also a significant inflection point. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How can you tell if you’re being over-criticized or overly sensitive? 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Among the many meanings embedded in this tumultuous image is a democratic inflection of our basic, always-troubled curiosity about the future. Perspective | On a last walk through the National Gallery, I’m reassured by images of an uncertain future 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z In their nasal inflection, they distort and mispronounce a series of words, a quirk that Kroll attributes to their “talking to each other more than they talk to anyone else.” The freshest comedy act today: Two old New Yorkers pranking people with tuna sandwiches 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z By contrast, he said, Mr. Eyre offers sparing but always incisive suggestions — asking him to rethink the reading of a single line, for instance, or the inflection of a word. Paul Gross Joins Kim Cattrall in ?Private Lives? 2011-11-04T03:30:21Z The amalgam of influences — Monk, Mr. Hancock and Mr. Pérez’s own Panamanian inflections — make for a bristling, rhythmically adventurous record that still holds up 21 years later. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z "Doctor Strange" is hardly an actor's showcase, but Cumberbatch had fun when his character bargains with Dormammu, cheekily repeating a line and meeting death over and over with different inflections and outcomes. Celebrating Benedict Cumberbatch's best movie misfits 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z In her voice-over, Costa tells us that she is seeing inflection points in the history of her country, which has been newly divided and will never be the same. The Fracturing of Brazil in “The Edge of Democracy” 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z That track, in its hard-charging refinement — and finely judged inflections of tempo and dynamics — proves a worthy modern testament to Europe’s handling of large ensembles. Jason Moran Pays Tribute to an Early Jazz Ancestor 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z A collection of pieces largely for an improvising quintet, it borrows the syntax of modern jazz, but pointedly alters the inflection. New Music: New Music by Passion Pit and Micachu & the Shapes 2012-07-23T22:18:24Z Alongside short, looping clips of herself as a child, Ms. Yerushalmy does again what she did back then, but with no emotional inflection. Review: The Joyce Unleashed Series, With a Middle Eastern Flavor 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Bonelli, at once so ardent and innocent in style, brought a marvelous range of detailed inflections to Belyaev, bewildered by his own new emotions. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z From all of her movements to the different inflections in her face, I sat there and just studied it for days and days and days. Kelly Rowland on Playing Gladys Knight: ‘I Just Wanted to Soak Her Up’ 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z On its own, this economic-disaster narrative would be a sharp, if polemical, cautionary tale, an indictment of American life at an inflection point. In Barbara Kingsolver’s New Book, a Family Teeters on the Brink 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z But Bach, with his spectacular calves, sees this summer as an optimistic inflection point. Asian American masculinity is being increasingly celebrated. But many men still face stereotyping. 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z In Mr. Hodge’s interpretation, everyone exists in a five-alarm state of tension from the get-go, with equally heightened poses and inflections. Review: ‘Old Times,’ Where the Past Is a Dangerous Place 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z “Jerusalem,” Jez Butterworth’s beautiful, funny and mournful comedy about the fraying fabric of English culture, is steeped in a specific language that simply wouldn’t sound the same without the specifics of vocal inflection. Stage Accents Trouble American and British Actors 2010-03-21T21:41:00Z Lev says the same thing, with the exact same inflection. The Subway Crush Who Crushed Me 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z In 1970s Bowie trousers and billowing black shirt, Goldfrapp has surely never sung better, every emotional inflection captured by the building's pin-drop acoustics. Goldfrapp – review 2013-07-19T13:31:11Z Will Bond, displaying the impish smile of an eccentric scientist, and Ellen Lauren, whose deceivingly detached inflections recall Laurie Anderson’s, pot around the stage in a manner that feels aimless and deliberate. Review: In ‘Chess Match No. 5,’ the Words of John Cage, Deconstructed 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z I found that I preferred to watch the three women, each of whom brought a much wider range of inflection to the movement than did the men. Dance Review: Miguel Gutierrez’s ‘And lose the name of action’ at BAM 2012-12-05T23:10:20Z Steps keep dissolving into through-the-body gestures, and every part of the physique is given a fresh inflection. Dance Review | Liz Gerring Dance Company: At Baryshnikov Center, Bringing the Outdoors In 2010-03-13T00:04:00Z Mercurio and the orchestra followed suit with appropriate inflections and dynamics, highlighting what a circus of great songwriting Gershwin’s eclectic piece really is. Chick Corea and Seattle Symphony meld jazz and classical music with a dazzling performance 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z But what were the inflection points where things changed? "WeWork had all of the bad red flags": How a visionary sales pitch turned into yoga-babble 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z As a singer, Ms. Wilson tinkers constantly with inflection and phrasing and melody, which puts a premium on the agility of her accompaniment. Music Review: Cassandra Wilson at the Rose Theater - Review 2011-10-04T20:01:36Z This training, when led by a qualified speech therapist, addresses enunciation, usage, inflection and other cultural quirks — not to bleach away all trace of accent or heritage, but to minimize linguistic barriers and cultural misunderstandings. Work advice: Want a side of vocal fry with your order? 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z He recalled that her delivery varied nightly, in “very small gradations,” with a new inflection on a particular syllable or a thicker application of vibrato. Music: A Style Lasting Beyond a Lifetime 2010-08-27T22:50:00Z As the lithe Ms. Lovette skitters across the stage with tiny walks on point and her hand to her mouth, her shapes somehow evoke the voice’s whispery inflection. Review: Alexei Ratmansky Finds a New Voice at City Ballet 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The gospel inflections and lyrical shifts from spirituality to earthier matters speak as much of a deep love of Southern soul as they do of White's background as the son of Christian missionaries. Matthew E White: Big Inner – review 2013-01-17T15:30:01Z We biographers believe that every interesting life has a childhood inflection point. Becoming Michael Lewis 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z But despite some Spanish inflections, vacillation is about all it expresses. Ballet Hispanico’s Take on ‘Carmen’ in ‘Carmen.maquia’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z That was a huge just creative inflection point for me. Hasan Minhaj on the joy of making “Patriot Act” and keeping the political personal 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z He notes that this book “developed alongside a series of public readings in front of live audiences,” and this workshop process appears to have fine-tuned his sense of pacing and inflection. Books of The Times: B. J. Novak’s Story Collection: ‘One More Thing’ 2014-01-27T21:38:31Z The scene then introduces one of the film’s terrific ironic inflections, creating a satire of consumer culture on a par with the humor of "The Simpsons." How "Toy Story" changed everything – in its first eight minutes 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z How do you measure progress on issues of gender violence at this inflection point? Anita Hill: ‘I think our journey, as a country, as a society, really tracks my own journey’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Julià presents its "stars", including a waiter who performs traditional dance with oddball hip-hop inflections and a bored blonde waitress in Basque costume, with the big movie glamour that Scorcese brings to small-time hoods. Artist of the week special: Asier Mendizabal, Alejandro Vidal, Adri? Juli? 2011-03-30T16:24:00Z So, of course, are his films—but Hitchcock’s films, unlike the interviews, have the uniquely inspired madness of his taste, touch, tone, his inimitable visual inflection. “Marnie” Is the Cure for Hitchcock Mania 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Such people could be held liable under torts such as intentional inflection of emotional distress and publication of private facts. Hunter Moore of IsAnyoneUp.com announces new revenge porn website 2012-12-06T12:00:00Z At age 35, Segel has reached an obvious inflection point in his career, and you can’t say he hasn’t gone large. Jason Segel on playing David Foster Wallace: “I’m starting to think the things we’ve been told will make us feel good are a lie” 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Instead, she has the nonchalant inflections that are distinctively Southern Californian. ‘You have no idea how much better I could make you look’: The woman who turns Hollywood men into style icons 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The slightest inflection in our voice, or raise of an eyebrow, can be fodder for dissection. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z But Ms. Bennett, a two-time Oliver-award winner, is no mere Garland imitator, though she exactly replicates Garland’s singing style, inflection by inflection. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Punished By Fame 2011-02-25T16:44:55Z A deep, back-of-the throat baritone, with a surfer inflection, a dash of seasonal allergies, a touch of robot — just Google it, okay? Perspective | Elizabeth Holmes’s weird, possibly fake baritone is actually her least baffling quality 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Not to say that that inflection point isn’t important, but we didn’t begin there. The Many Layers of Lorna Simpson 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Porter tosses off gospel inflections with ease, responding to the sighing arc of Chip Crawford’s piano chords. The Playlist: Frank Ocean Rescues ‘Moon River,’ and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The names of those two, red-heavy, circular paintings take on a different inflection when you know the backstory: “Roof Walk” and “Cinder Skipper.” Gallery Walk: Postcards from a trip through Pioneer Square’s galleries and graffiti 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Rhythms, dynamics, melodic contours, vocal inflections and other ideas from Latin music have repeatedly catalyzed mainstream musical evolution: in jazz, rock ’n’ roll, psychedelia, disco, electronic dance music and hip-hop. In 2022, Latin Pop Thrived on Innovation. Again. 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Fortunately, O’Neill was a copious writer of stage directions, sometimes giving long, meticulous descriptions of his characters as they are introduced and precise indications of both actions and their emotional inflection. | 'The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O?Neill Volume 1': Neo Futurists Present Stage Directions From O?Neill Plays 2011-09-13T02:05:01Z Ms. Metcalf, the veteran of television’s “Roseanne” who has profitably returned to her stage roots in the last decade or so, brings savory sardonic inflections to her performance as this tough-hided character. | 'The Other Place': Confronting an Illness and a Life in Shambles 2011-03-29T08:30:23Z But on this there’s very little debate: Hart’s presidential campaign was the first to be tanked by a sex scandal, and it was an inflection point for how the news media covered politicians ever after. When a Collision Between Politics and Sex Shocked Americans 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z In a video released by the producers on Thursday, Ms. Mazzie hinted at some of her vocal inflections for the production as she described Helen. ArtsBeat: Marin Mazzie to Star in ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ 2013-12-05T19:54:57Z We know that our ancestors inhabit our natural shapes, movements and gestures, the colors of our eyes and hair, the way our skins weather in the sun or cold, the tiniest inflections in our voices. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z The vocabulary is connected to those of both George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, the main choreographers for these City Ballet dancers, but with many new inflections, alternating between informal manners and academic rigor. Critic’s Notebook: Troy Schumacher and BalletCollective Open Eyes 2013-08-19T21:42:28Z His father, he says, was a “businessman” – he puts a questioning inflection on the word, with a mischievous smile. Billy Crudup: ‘Life is hard. It’s filled with grief, confusion, unpredictability … ' 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z One of the show's high points is actually due to another artist's absence, when the entire audience raps Nicki Minaj's guest verse on Bottoms Up, inflection for inflection. Trey Songz ? review 2011-04-07T16:56:27Z A prime mark of a director’s inventiveness is a sense of choice; another is a sense of inflection—and they’re largely connected. "Ant-Man" Is a Superhero Movie for Skeptics 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z We are all learning a new vocabulary of inoculation: self-quarantine, shedding period, flattening the curve, inflection point. How to See the World When You’re Stuck at Home 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z But these inflections were themselves sarcastic declarations, ripostes that did not invite discussion but instead ended it. Could Matthew Perry’s Chandler-Speak Be Any More Memorable? 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z But the psychology of Ms. Rabe’s Nora, with her sometimes sardonic comic inflections and her flashes of disgust at her husband’s domineering ways, doesn’t line up with the character’s circumstances. | 'A Doll's House': A Nora Who Could Text All Her Discontents 2011-07-25T22:00:10Z The modes and inflections were Southeast Asian, but the folky tunes were homey and direct. Music Review: Kong Nay at the Season of Cambodia Festival 2013-04-21T21:51:37Z “This book is the moment in which Liliana is finally back with her language, her point of view, her inflections.” An Author Wrote About Her Sister’s Murder. It Led to a Breakthrough. 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z A Tony nominee for “Shuffle Along,” the smashing Ms. Warren replicates the signature physical and vocal inflections. Women Set London’s Stages Ablaze 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z For all the obvious reasons — the alliteration, the inflection towards "Breaking Bad," the double entendre of breaking bread with people. Roy Choi shines a light on our broken food systems: "We'll throw away food before we feed people" 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Jerome Kern turns out to be the ideal touchstone for Mr. Bennett: He was a suave melodist who married classical form with jazz inflection, and many of his tunes have long been standards. Review: Tony Bennett and Bill Charlap in ‘The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern’ 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Only as Undine’s enamel shell dissolves — Ms. Boothe is especially good at rendering the change via body language and vocal inflection — do we begin to enjoy her and the surrounding characters fully. Review: Downward Mobility Is Upward Morality in ‘Fabulation’ 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z With every raised eyebrow and vocal inflection, the ensemble of superb young actors inhabited their characters with uncanny ease. ‘Star Trek Into Darkness,’ ‘We Steal Secrets,’ ‘Peeples’ 2013-09-09T21:25:38Z The crises of 2020 exposed many of the country’s frailties, Packer says, and the United States is at an inflection point. 15 New Books Coming in June 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z He winds his way through a stump speech with the same inflections and cadences of a Southern preacher. Raphael Warnock’s campaign for the moral high ground 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z In hindsight, the sinking of the Robin Moor can be seen as an inflection point in an undeclared shooting war between Germany and the United States. Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z This production involves the Act III classical suite of dances in Hungarian style, mixing ballet with folk inflections on a grand scale. Ballet Theater Presents a New Version of ‘Raymonda’ 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The through line was Ravid Kahalani’s grainy, impassioned voice, whether he was sustaining the inflections of a cantor or verging on rap. Music Review: Globalfest at Webster Hall - Review 2012-01-09T23:18:48Z Weighing every note and inflection, he brought out all the alienation and yearning in each song, dispersed them with surreally humorous patter, then plunged back in, again and again. Pop and Jazz Concert Highs of 2011 2011-12-28T23:32:40Z But Gerald Finley sings them all with such an unwaveringly beautiful tone and attention to every syllable, and pianist Julian Drake is so wonderfully attuned to the baritone's inflections that it hardly seems to matter. Britten: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, etc 2010-06-03T22:00:00Z "He had that unmistakable voice with its delicate inflections so easily mimicked, eyebrows that could speak a thousand words when raised slightly at the right moment... and an unerring instinct to know when to listen." Stars at memorial for Alan Whicker 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z He would simultaneously control the whammy bar, volume and tone control of the guitar which – with the combination of harmonics, off-fret slide and left-hand inflection – explored an orchestral range of sonic possibilities. Jeff Beck: The unorthodox techniques that made him such a unique guitarist 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z But the appearance by Mr. Spielberg — who was given Comic-Con’s Inkpot Award for lifetime achievement — also marked an inflection point in what may be the busiest and most frantic year in his long Hollywood career. In His Year of Working Furiously, Spielberg Makes a Summer Stop 2011-07-22T23:39:18Z Owing to a childhood spent almost entirely with nannies, the Prince of Wales spoke in private with a Cockney inflection – and later, in exile, developed an American twang. The King's Speech: True blood or right royal dud? 2011-01-13T17:25:00Z The scrutiny of baby names eventually leads to guests’ mocking deconstructions of one another’s facial expressions and vocal inflections. Movie Review: ‘What’s in a Name?,’ a Farce About a Fractious Evening 2013-12-12T23:26:35Z But this is the essence of Utamaro, in a way: inflections so small it makes one marvel that a whole image can be defined, or redefined, by them. Kitagawa Utamaro 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Can this consummate New Yorker shed his accent, his inflections and expressions and body language and everything else that's encoded into his Italian-American DNA? Kill off the "Little Fockers"! 2010-12-22T15:22:00Z But the dark colorings and expressive inflections of their sounds are strikingly close. Classical Recordings: Two CDs of Beethoven?s ?Fidelio,? From 1960 and Today 2011-10-02T02:55:23Z Featuring the feminine wiles of the aforementioned Minaj, “Make Me Proud” is one of the few instances where the oddball Barbie’s bizarre inflections or controversial rhymes don’t overwhelm the track. Drake's Take Care Was Worth The Wait 2011-11-15T14:00:12Z I felt he was perfect – the inflections, everything, so original. David Bowie: loving the thespian 2012-08-27T13:53:51Z That’s what happens with friends: over a period of time, you start to sound alike, and your inflections are alike.” The Sidekick No More 2011-03-18T21:29:03Z It was a curiously muted performance, the mime gestures not entirely compensating for the limited vocal inflections. Hebrides Ensemble | Classical review 2010-03-16T22:15:00Z The Silent Generation of the 1950s was beginning to acquire a voice by the end of the decade, and it carried some Weavers-inspired inflections. Music With Messages 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The intense inflection of these images, and the expressive work that they do to convey Ozu’s desired tone, are shifted in his sound films, in two directions—to the voice and to the drama. Movie of the Week: “Dragnet Girl” 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z We’re going through the third phase, with Asian, Chinese and Central American inflections. Americans ‘need to stop being defensive about their food culture’ 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z “Fuzzy,” he added, “who was second lead, was a soulful tenor with all the bluesy inflections, like Wilson Pickett, real rough.” Fuzzy Haskins, Who Helped Turn Doo-Wop Into P-Funk, Dies at 81 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z In the 1980s he'd devised a way of setting words by having them sung on a slow glissando that preserved the microtonal inflections of speaking. Interview: Salvatore Sciarrino - 'My problem is I want to change the world' 2013-07-15T15:17:00Z “Daughters” eschews plot for the poetry of the everyday during an inflection point in the lives of a family within a Gullah community. What came before ‘Daughters of the Dust’: A new series focuses on little-known works from black female filmmakers 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z “Po-lice-man is on the premises, what is he doing in here?” vocalist Frank Sirius sings on “Run Joe,” in his best Brown inflection. Winding it up again for the Godfather of Go-Go The television journalists with their trench coats and stentorian inflections. Review: In ‘The Reagan Show,’ No Grenada but Lots of the Arms Race 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z “This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever worn?” she says, her inflection rising at the end, as it often does, lending even her most confident assertions an equivocal note. Booksmart star Beanie Feldstein: ‘Everyone said we didn’t belong in LA’ 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Goeldner also caught the sinister inflection of the biblical temptress’s music. Review | Can’t even sex sell opera? 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Even before the real singers arrived, he would linger over an individual phrase or word: “ma,” say, meaning “but,” accompanied by a note that changes the direction, and thus the inflection, of the music. Critic?s Notebook: More Drama for an Opera, Not All of It From the Singers 2011-04-14T22:02:56Z The part could still use more varied inflection than it’s given here. | 'Race': Eddie Izzard in David Mamet?s ?Race? 2010-07-01T02:01:00Z We’re at an inflection point in this country, potentially the most significant one in generations. We Don’t Have to Like Them. We Just Need to Understand Them. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z The inflection point between hope and honesty — that’s how I think of it. CNN’s Sanjay Gupta on covering the coronavirus: ‘I think there is intrinsic value to hope’ 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z In the lives of these thoughtful people, Cohen locates the painful inflection point of their morality. Review | The perfect summer novel: ‘Strangers and Cousins’ is an unusually substantive comedy 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z From a distance, the tableau can seem an inspiring inflection point: the first Black major leaguer in the 20th century playing in the first televised World Series. Jackie Robinson’s Inner Struggle 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Her voice, like her writing, is level and pointed, with the slightest inflection turning the mood toward irony, scandal or foreboding. Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Johnson argues that the attack on the Ganj-i-Sawai, which would have been an outrage in any century, takes on greater significance when seen as a crucial inflection point in the rise of the British Empire. The Pirates’ Booty That Changed the Course of History 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Parents encourage the baby’s speech, and help refine its inflection to their particular language. Why all babies say “mama” 2013-05-13T16:16:00Z Following a short solo ballad, in which his inflection sounded a lot like Jack White’s, he elevated the proceedings with a raucous call-and-response rock melody. Arcade Fire sideman Will Butler moves to front with solo show 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z His vibrancy and velvety depth of tone maximised every facet of the piece, with the almost jazzy inflection of the slow movement given particular feeling. BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Otaka – review 2013-03-31T16:00:01Z The only rough spots are when Vance’s inflections or pauses suggest he may be unsure of the meaning of some of the book’s more technical passages. Neil deGrasse Tyson Explores the Symbiosis Between War and Astrophysics 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z One twist of a melodic inflection, one overemphatic orchestral stab, and those carefully constructed verbal nuances have been obliterated. Rivers of babble on: how word became the servant to music 2013-06-28T17:59:00Z These 17 short pieces sometimes sound like wistful, eerie country music, at times with Celtic inflections. Bill Frisell: Sign of Life: Music for the 858 Quartet ? review 2011-08-25T20:46:01Z He moved to the songs with squared-off shoulders, pointing fingers and jerking hips, dancing more than posing, and his face contorted as he sustained notes to give each one its most biting inflection. Music Review: At Terminal 5, Public Image Ltd. Rages Anew 2010-05-19T22:32:00Z Their quirks are swept up in a flow of balletic movement with Spanish inflections, each section streaming into the next. Dance Review: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at the Joyce Theater 2013-05-20T20:51:40Z Cave speaks with that rising Australian inflection that makes every statement sound like a question, which shouldn't be surprising, but somehow is. 'It's OK to embarrass yourself' ? Nick Cave and the return of Grinderman 2010-09-02T22:00:00Z Every inflection, whether in extrovert or introvert passages, was delivered like a great actor bringing extra space and subtle weight to familiar lines. Murray Perahia – review 2013-04-18T16:26:12Z Each speaks in his own language, and brings his own reflections and inflections to the story. DVDs: Films of Sacha Guitry, a French Charmer, on DVD 2010-07-31T05:00:00Z Then he was back to the business of rhapsody, one graceful inflection at a time. Music Review: Fred Hersch Trio, Live and Recorded, at the Village Vanguard 2012-02-08T22:51:48Z Trying to explain why, he speculated that by spending “so much time working on it I’m putting in a kind of nuanced inflection rather than making an absolutely direct translation.” Perspective | Chuck Close’s reputation as an artist is hard to separate from the impediments he faced — and overcame 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z He and Aussie Palmer handle their dialogue with believable American accents, zombie inflection included. Review: 'Warm Bodies' could use more heat 2013-01-30T17:16:04Z Those dialect-coached Boston inflections predominate in “Shutter Island,” but are not the only voices heard on the grounds of the asylum, where the patients perambulate like zombies and the orderlies lurk like vengeful specters. Movie Review | 'Shutter Island': All at Sea, Surrounded by Red Herrings 2010-02-18T15:49:00Z Luckily, the cast members continue to exert themselves relentlessly in the service of laughter, from mere exaggerated inflections to all-out clowning. Review: ‘The Alchemist,’ a Play in Search of Comedy Gold 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z As he speaks, the vowels crash together, and the words change speeds, echoing the jazz inflections of beat poetry and evoking synesthesia. Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Devine, who plays Cynthia Carmichael, is a God-fearing woman with impossible-to-forget inflections and mannerisms; when she learns who the stand-up tickets are for, she repeats “Bill Cosby?!” in increasing incredulity, meaning something different each time. “The Carmichael Show’s” definitive take on Bill Cosby’s legacy: How Jerrod Carmichael became the most important comedian in America 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The maddening grin, the provocative inflections in his voice, the girl on his arm, the air of invincibility – everything about Sidney sparks a competitive combustion that burns away Bowman’s uncertainties. My streaming gem: why you should watch Pit Stop 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z I wanted an Indian inflection in my meals, but I didn't want to go through all the work. For Maya Kaimal, "deliciousness wins" when making everyday Indian cuisine 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z The band’s debut single, “Hot and Cold,” was chipper, with inflections of grunge and punk, and had a kitschy, food-obsessed music video; its boisterous debut album, “Rips,” is out now. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z “People argue it will stifle the resale market and make the whole art business less fluid. But there has to be an inflection point.” Tech Start-Up Aims to Get Artists Royalties for Resale 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z The dramatic depth of Ms. Bartoli’s performance comes from the incisiveness, colorings and inflections of her singing. Review: Cecilia Bartoli Has Dramatic Depth as ‘Norma’ at Salzburg Festival 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z The German tenor telegraphed meaning vocally and through facial inflection. Schubert's lonely hearts club band and a heart throb tenor 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z “This is a permanent inflection point,” he said. Coronavirus shutdowns and charges of white supremacy: American art museums are in crisis 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z Even better, once she had analyzed what she was doing, Ms. Block succeeded in replicating Cher’s inflections without also having to bleach her teeth. You Can’t Spell Cher Without Her (and Her and Her) 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Rylance proves that modern inflections can bolster the most traditional "original practices" production. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Twelfth Night; The Magistrate – review 2012-11-25T00:05:48Z "We're at an inflection point in how people watch television," he said. Comcast, networks collaborate on TV binge week 2013-03-14T09:31:06Z “So much of language is not just the words as they might appear but the inflection or accent, the deciphering of sarcasm.” Let’s watch a murder 2012-06-10T01:00:00Z Early in the concert, she sang with the inflections of Indian classical music, and she was gorgeously ethereal in the quiet opening section of “Naane Varugiraen.” Review: A. R. Rahman, Full of Bollywood Hits at the Beacon 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Lavin evinces with every sardonic inflection and studied pause the cool distance with which Ruth observes the world, beginning with her students and their fledgling attempts at displaying their literary plumage. | 'Collected Stories': Linda Lavin as Donald Margulies?s Vision of Faded Fame 2010-04-28T23:01:00Z That inflection came around 2009, she said, thanks, in part, to a residency in Marseille, France. A Portraitist Whose Subjects Are All in Her Head 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z After all, the stars of cinema's heyday saw no need to mimic the inflections of the characters they portrayed. Gambit gabble: what actors' accents lack 2012-11-26T16:46:43Z “It is not a thought which crosses my mind,” he said in English, in an accent mingling German and Italian inflections. Fabio Luisi Is to Be Met Opera?s Principal Guest Conductor 2010-04-27T21:07:00Z In the flesh, Burke, 38, speaks slowly and smilingly, with faintly Izzardian inflection. 'I'm an expressionist nihilist at heart': the dark allure of Tom Burke 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z “I recorded people’s voices to get the proper inflection,” she told The Ottawa Citizen in 1996. Elizabeth Peña, Actress on the Big and Small Screens, Dies at 55 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Over the course of the season so far, Adedapo incorporated dance routines into her performances that made them fun to watch, and did things nobody else did, like use a Jamaican vocal inflection, and rap. Kent's Stefano Langone still alive on "Idol," in a field of nine 2011-04-01T04:30:16Z That inflection point, precipitated by a pandemic made even scarier by the growing number of attacks against Asian Americans, happened that April in my family. A nourishing soup to heal the cracks 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z McKeel repeats the line, this time with the inflection in the proper place. In the age of ear buds and audiobooks, they want to be the voices in your head 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z “VanderMeer makes the case — viscerally, unflinchingly — that we would do well to envision ourselves at this existential inflection point.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z It can mean wildly extended harmony, blues inflections, odd-metered cadences, unconventional instrumental pairings. Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Uh, yeah?” was how my daughter responded when I asked if she wanted to go, adding that little bit of inflection that let me know her answer should have been self-evident. Gamers Have a Little League of Their Own 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z I paddled into position, wheeled around, dropped in, and popped to my feet and angled right, a side-stance inflection that is deeply etched into my muscle memory. Surfing in the Age of the Omnipresent Camera 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z It’s a fitting creation story for our age, with a sort of Gnostic, fallen-world inflection: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was a mistake. At Seattle’s Museum of Museums, a pseudo-religion generated by artificial intelligence and machine learning 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z It became a small sensation: She doesn’t just nail every note; she approximates the saxophonist’s inflection, approaching moments of climax with a similar ramping effect, while exerting her own bright persona. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Rana’s is a reading full of elegance, and ever so subtle in its inflections, but there is a strength of purpose to it, too. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Clemens, an Australian actress who appears on television in “Rectify,” captures exactly the inflections and guardedness of the small-town American South. Review: Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Hold On to Me Darling,’ a Study of Bad Faith (and Behavior) 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Life had once again demonstrated that, under the right circumstances and with the right inflection, he could get anyone to buy into anything he said. How the ‘Succession’ Star Nicholas Braun Elevates Cousin Greg 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z His inflections are the sum of his experiences — born in China; lived in Perth, Australia; studied in London. Meet Yang Li, a designer putting China on fashion’s biggest stage Parker Sawyers, the actor who plays Barack Obama in the film, said he started off with a "strong impersonation" of the president, but then let the mannerisms and speech inflections of his character come naturally. Obamas' first date inspires romantic movie 'Southside with You' 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z A representative point of inflection occurred within her first week. Deborah Birx’s Excruciating Story of Donald Trump’s Covid Response 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The film’s premiere came smack in the middle of an inflection point for Russia. ‘Navalny’ aims to make noise for imprisoned Russian leader 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z “Ocean’s 8” rises and falls on the creation of vivid moments, of characters distilled into gestures and inflections. “Ocean’s 8” Isn’t Up to the Talents of Its Female Stars 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The most likely explanation for his death is that Mozart caught the streptococcal inflection that was going around at his Masonic lodge. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Gnawa music has distinct regional styles with different tunings and melodic inflections; the repertory has songs in pentatonic scales akin to West African music and the blues, as well as songs that use Arabic-sounding modes. Music Review: Mystical Morocco Bursting With Tribal Rhythm 2011-05-22T21:45:10Z Nostalgia is the Western's fuel, which explains why it keeps resurfacing at inflection points in our culture. The "Yellowstone" effect: Welcome to the new era of TV Westerns 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z But there’s not a wasted gesture or inflection in Mr. Byrne’s performance. Review: ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ Is a Tempest in a Bourbon Bottle 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Reedy is a robust singer, comfortable with jazz and cabaret inflections, and is mindful never to overpower a lyric or feeling. Playlist: Jessica Reedy?s Album, ?From the Heart? 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z This is normally the inflection point when an idiosyncratic filmmaker either smooths out his sensibilities to make a superhero movie or decamps to a streaming service in search of creative control at a bigger budget. ‘The Northman’ Wasn’t Easy to Make. But That’s How Robert Eggers Likes It. 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z All of this Moore recounts with — what is that inflection? From Hollywood ‘Pretty Girl’ to Empowered Novelist 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Speedy, ultraprecise unisons and a round-robin of improvisations minimize what must have been complex choices on tuning, mode and inflection; the music shimmers as fingers fly. The Playlist: Previously Unreleased Hendrix, and 10 More New Songs 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z A more meaningful inflection point may have come in May, with the death of Philip Roth. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Dylan’s songs do get more mileage, and more shades of meaning, with every inflection he brings to them onstage on his never-ending tour. Bob Dylan: America’s Great One-Man Songbook 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “She told me exactly how to sing it, what inflection to make with my voice, how to phrase, everything! She was in charge.” Betty Davis, hard funk pioneer, dead at 77 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Woodard’s performance gathers its astonishing force incrementally, in subtle choices and inflections that you might not even register as actorly decisions. ‘Clemency’ Review: No Place for Mercy 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z That’s only one of the exalted and memorable dicta that Rogers delivers in the course of “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”—and that Hanks revels, word by word and inflection by inflection, in delivering. The Wondrous Heroism of Mr. Rogers in “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z After the incisive fugue and the ironic inflections of the waltz, the relative acquiescence of the final bars carried a sense of stoic resignation rather than resolution. Royal String Quartet 2010-07-20T20:30:00Z It was way over the top, but it is a very funny Bowie impersonation that just reiterated some of his inflections. Q. and A.: Noah Bean on Portraying David Bowie 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z “Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance,” the band’s ninth album, stirs in earnest but uneven inflections of Northern soul and synth-pop. Pop, Rock & Cabaret for June 5-11 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Other baritones have sung Macbeth with more power than Zeljko Lucic summons, but he brought telling vocal inflections to the music, including sotto voce singing to suggest Macbeth’s terror. Opera Review: Provocations at the Salzburg Festival 2011-08-16T11:30:19Z The performances by Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively in the mystery-comedy “A Simple Favor” are so invigorating, so generous with pointed inflections and snappy gestures, that they fill the movie’s good-humored, amply plotted emptiness. “A Simple Favor,” Reviewed: Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively Give Life to a Mystery-Comedy Made of Plastic 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Things happen, though often quietly, creating a flowing, crystalline ordinariness that, in its very naturalness and in its lack of dramatic inflection, strengthens the realism. ‘Drive My Car’ Review: A Director Takes Your Heart for a Spin 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z A heavy sense of obligation runs through Murphy’s direction — through every word, every inflection, every choice, every time a new-wave dance hit becomes an ironic dirge. ‘The Normal Heart’: Then and now, a relevant outrage More than that, he conveyed the meaning and inflections of the words in these wistful, yearning songs, especially “Come Again.” Music Review: Anthony Dean Griffey and Emalie Savoy at Morgan Library 2013-01-16T16:08:16Z For much of her time onstage, White is restricted to lines like "Yes, sir" and "No, sir" -- but her inflections speak volumes. 'Trying' and succeeding: International City revival soars 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The brilliance of his performance is impossible to convey in print because so much of it resides in his body language and inflection, in facial expressions and gestures. Willy Wonka deserved an Oscar: A close look at Gene Wilder’s finest role 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z His style had evolved, in line with modernists like Lennie Tristano and Thelonious Monk, but he still had a trace of the South in his earthy attack, and in his untroubled relationship with blues inflection. Mose Allison, a Font of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z David was from Philadelphia but spoke with a British inflection. Playing Cupid for a Gay Friend on a (Mostly) Straight Cruise 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z It's not long before you begin to long for a chromatic inflection, for something to supply an expressive tweak, and to find an equivalent for the expressive power of the words. Prom 19: Sondheim at 80 2010-08-01T20:31:00Z The expanse and richness of her voice drew attention quickly, as did her adaptability to the gentle rhythmic inflections of her band. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z The person was probably guilty of using up-talk, or speaking with rising inflection, usually tacked on at the end of a sentence. 3 Speech Habits That Are Worse Than Vocal Fry in Job Interviews 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z A-list actors last month signed a letter to guild leadership saying they were ready to strike and calling this moment “an unprecedented inflection point in our industry.” What to Know About the Actors’ Strike 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Sometimes this occurs with just the tiniest rearrangements of words and emphases and inflections. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Big Ideas in Small Spaces 2012-01-31T16:09:34Z Founded in 2006 by two club kids from Lisbon, the band mixes Kuduro, a strain of Angolan dance music born in the late 1980s, with electronic music and some Caribbean inflections. Buraka Som Sistema Reveals Lisbon’s Musical Melting Pot 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Even coming from the radio or the jukebox, her voice cut through the ozone, every inflection proclaiming, “This lady is different.” ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’: Bringing Loretta Lynn’s Story to Life 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Olmi’s intimate camera captures his performers’ delicate range of inflections and glimmers of feeling as their inhibitions begin to curdle into weary bitterness. Movies 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z I wrote every day, read a lot, trained myself to notice the odd detail and inflections of speech. My autistic son and my career 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z The discipline necessary is the same discipline needed to learn lines, study inflections, understand characters and dig deeply into a script. Breaking Into Movies via Mixed Martial Arts 2013-01-25T23:52:32Z Miller sees the longtime "Tonight Show" host's eventual official retirement in 1992 as "the inflection point, where it could have gone ungendered, that late night was for funny people," she said. Why women really don’t get to host late-night TV 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Piercy, representing the league, went on to attend the Republican and Democratic conventions in 1972, a key inflection point for female activists. The Women Who Met Hillary, and Spotted a Future Political Star 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z “Burning Man is clearly at an inflection point,” said Steve Brown, a director of the recent documentary “Spark: A Burning Man Story.” Over: Running On Fumes 2013-09-06T23:06:43Z Lewis played the theme in the equivalent of an appropriately conversational tone, but the music progressed without inflection or variety. Aiming for a musical summit but falling short 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The performance’s modern inflections are imbued with the spirit of dance; it’s a set of inventive exuberance and jaunty joy. The Best Jazz Reissues of 2014 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Watching the same movie or TV show over and over again, memorizing the lines, the gestures, the inflections, is something I did a lot of in college. Second (and third) time’s a charm 2012-12-11T16:04:00Z The second movement, a glorious set of theme and variations, was a master class in light and shade, full of subtle inflections and delightful filigree. Review | Andras Schiff graces the faithful with a recital akin to a religious experience 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z I believe that the nomination of “20th Century Women” for Best Original Screenplay owes a lot to Bening’s performance of its text, which her inflections improve word by word. The 2017 Oscar Nominations Don’t Matter but the Movies Do, More Than Ever 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Her voice sounds flat, no inflection, feeling or believability. ‘Outlander’ Season 2 Finale: I Believe You 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z Hekselman, 36, owes a lot to the more nebulous tone of Kurt Rosenwinkel, though he has a knack for playful misdirection and blues inflection that gives him an identity of his own. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Tiny inflections matter: One man keeps allowing another to push him back onto a mattress before descending to rough him up tenderly, yet each iteration is so freshly, differently delivered that it stays suspenseful. For Gay Pride, Dark Dances of Mystery, Anguish and Desire 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z For the king's crucial speech on the eve of World War II, Firth listened to recordings of the broadcast and carefully marked up his script, noting pauses and inflections. Colin Firth studied stammer for royal role in 'The King's Speech' 2010-12-18T02:05:18Z Based on the first episode, and now Episode 2, Westworld has reached a crucial inflection point in its existence. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 2: If You Can’t Tell, Does It Matter? 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z That’s in line with the composer’s practice: Monk insisted on teaching his music to bandmates by ear, so they could catch his inflections and emphases. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z “He knows how to keep the vocal energy going to the end of the thought. He lands the idea. He uses pitch. He uses inflection.” ‘The Originalist,’ a New Play About Justice Antonin Scalia by John Strand 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z An upwards inflection at the end of the sentence leaves the point moot. Michael Peña: 'I'm not funny. I just point out what's funny in others' 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z In retrospect, that piece and one in 2017, where he built a coaster-track sculpture in the courtyard of a Venice palazzo and stood atop it for periods of time, signal an inflection point. EJ Hill Wants to Take You on a Ride 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Holbrook’s patrician bearing and seamless technique allowed him, at earlier inflection points in the evolution of American entertainment, not only a distinguished career in the classics but also a certain utility-man quality. Perspective | From Twain to Deep Throat, Hal Holbrook left an indelible mark on American entertainment 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z But maybe, in the wake of the existential crisis of Covid-19, when the ingrained practices of decades ground to a sudden halt, we are finally approaching an inflection point. Is It Finally Twilight for the Theater’s Sacred Monsters? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z With Ms. Weber you notice gently daffy inflections of the pelvis, softly whipping footwork and a momentarily suspended arabesque, as if floating in air. Dance Review: Cunningham Dance Company Offers Finality and Contentment 2011-12-30T14:27:41Z Most undocumented migrants speak Spanish, but even in a single language there are issues of accents, intonations and inflection. Communication in America: How undocumented immigrants negotiate a place for themselves 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Little Amar’s spelling test, for instance, is just one of an infinite series of moments in the child’s life — until his father and his sisters consider it later as a point of inflection. Review | Sarah Jessica Parker thinks she knows what you should read. She’s right. 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Along with her genius for physical comedy and deadpan inflection — “don’t get me started,” she’d intone, as the mediocre stand-up Jeannie Darcy — Shannon has an uncanny knack for transgression in pursuit of higher truth. Molly Shannon’s Memoir Is Filled With Mischief and Pathos 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z As the title suggests, this work deals with the purification of speech, but using computer analysis, Harvey attempts to find a way of translating the inflections of speech into the vocabulary of orchestral instruments. Harvey: Speakings; Jubilus; Scena 2010-06-24T20:42:00Z “The world is at an inflection point — this is not a hyperbole,” Biden said Thursday at a CEO summit held in conjunction with APEC. Corporate, global leaders peer into a future expected to be reshaped by AI, for better or worse 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z The shift came at an inflection point for the firearms industry. Army Ammunition Plant Is Tied to Mass Shootings Across the U.S. 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z Take me back to an early inflection point, with airline deregulation in 1978. How modern air travel got so miserable — and how to make for smooth flying instead 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z The flight of Russian troops from Kherson under prolonged Ukrainian assault a year ago was one of Ukraine’s biggest successes in the war and was seen as an inflection point. One year after liberation, Ukrainians in Kherson hold on to hope amid constant shelling 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z But a two-week study by government hydrologists, found the glacier is reaching a dangerously unstable “inflection point.” Chile shuts down a popular glacier, sparking debate over climate change and adventure sports 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z If it feels like we’re reaching a cultural inflection point, that’s because activists, scholars and scientists have been working for a long time to get us here. Meatless Monday: The first 20 years 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z These eras were the key inflection points in the development of the United States. Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z With his dry delivery he created a catchphrase with a mere turn of inflection, based on banter he’d shared with childhood friends: Could he be any more Chandler? 'Friends' star Matthew Perry dead at 54, found in hot tub at L.A. home, sources say 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z Each note, each lyric’s inflection hits perfectly and intentionally. The 8 types of karaoke singers you’ll hear in Seattle 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Wars are raging, and according to the president of the United States, our country is at an “inflection point.” GOP finally picks a speaker: But the hellish chaos of D.C. won't end anytime soon 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z “We’re facing an inflection point in history — one of those moments where the decisions we make today are going to determine the future for decades to come,” he said. Column: Biden says the U.S. must help Israel and Ukraine succeed — he's staking his reputation on it 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z He warned that “we are facing an inflection point in history” and is pitching a $105 billion military aid package to help American allies. Americans, Weary of Foreign Conflicts, Face Another 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z “I think we’re in a moment of inflection. Like, what do we want to want? What next?” Meet the person who will shape Seattle’s arts sector for years to come 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z |
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